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Stewie
03-20-2015, 04:00 PM
How many people here have "eye floaters?" I've just recently noticed them in my peripheral vision. Little, tiny thread-like strands that float around. New to me, but apparently they're common as you get older.

petegz28
03-20-2015, 04:02 PM
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eDave
03-20-2015, 04:04 PM
Not to alarm, but my brother had those right before being diagnosed with glaucoma. He was probably 44ish at the time. They were more towards the center of the eye though.

Worth checking out.

eDave
03-20-2015, 04:05 PM
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I used to have trouble falling asleep due to mind racing. I learned to find a squiggly line and just concentrate on it. Asleep in no time.

Oh squiggly line

Baby Lee
03-20-2015, 04:11 PM
Anyone else get fractals if you press your palms into your eye sockets while your lids are closed? Usually purple rotating fractal pattern like a mid 90s screensaver.

Oh, and no floaties here. Though I do notice that with OTC sleep meds [diphenhydramine], my ability to focus my eyes goes before I get drowsy. Not in a drowsy way, but in a farsighted way, utterly unable to focus on text, which sucks when I try to supplement the sleep aid with reading to bring on drowsiness.

siberian khatru
03-20-2015, 04:13 PM
Got them when I turned 40. Eight years later, they haven't gotten worse and I'm used to them.

CapsLockKey
03-20-2015, 04:15 PM
I've had them for as long as i can remember. I only ever notice them in certain bright lighting.

mdchiefsfan
03-20-2015, 04:15 PM
Take 2 doses of antifreeze per day. Clears it right up.

SAUTO
03-20-2015, 04:15 PM
I've had them for as long as I can remember.

SAUTO
03-20-2015, 04:16 PM
I get tracers sometimes too...

chiefs1111
03-20-2015, 04:17 PM
Not to alarm, but my brother had those right before being diagnosed with glaucoma. He was probably 44ish at the time. They were more towards the center of the eye though.

Worth checking out.

I've had Glaucoma since I was 16 and got the floaters around that same time

Fish
03-20-2015, 04:18 PM
I have an Africa shaped floater in my right eye, from an ice pick accident when I was a kid. I slipped with an icepick and jabbed myself in the eyeball, requiring internal and external stitches on the white part of my eye just below the pupil.

Last year I was diagnosed with glaucoma in that eye.

Have you always had it? If you also notice bright lightning flashes when you cough or sneeze real hard, or if you start getting tunnel vision, you might want to get it tested. That's evidence of your optic nerve detaching from your retina.

BigMeatballDave
03-20-2015, 04:21 PM
I have one in each eye.

Rarely notice them.

jd1020
03-20-2015, 04:22 PM
I have a few. Only notice them when looking at a white screen on the computer or a clear blue sky.

BigMeatballDave
03-20-2015, 04:25 PM
Anyone else get fractals if you press your palms into your eye sockets while your lids are closed? Usually purple rotating fractal pattern like a mid 90s screensaver.
Yes. Never knew they had a name.

Stewie
03-20-2015, 04:28 PM
I have an Africa shaped floater in my right eye, from an ice pick accident when I was a kid. I slipped with an icepick and jabbed myself in the eyeball, requiring internal and external stitches on the white part of my eye just below the pupil.

Last year I was diagnosed with glaucoma in that eye.

Have you always had it? If you also notice bright lightning flashes when you cough or sneeze real hard, or if you start getting tunnel vision, you might want to get it tested. That's evidence of your optic nerve detaching from your retina.

Since I've done research I've noticed a flash in my left eye when I do rigorous eye movement. It's kind of hard to see if it's different since that wasn't a routine test. My right eye has no symptoms. Back to the eye doctor.

KC Hawks
03-20-2015, 04:33 PM
I got one in each eye about a year and a half ago. Used to drive me crazy, but I've gotten used to them.

Chieficus
03-20-2015, 04:37 PM
I've had one, a transparent dot in the left side of my vision for as long as I can remember. At 34yo now, a few more small ones have appeared. I somehow developed a small cataract in my left eye in my early 20s, but other than that my yearly eye exams turn out fine, so the floaters have never been an issue connected to anything.

Zebedee DuBois
03-20-2015, 04:45 PM
Your are falling apart from the inside out.

Stewie
03-20-2015, 04:48 PM
Your are falling apart from the inside out.

I know! What the hell?

Zebedee DuBois
03-20-2015, 04:50 PM
You should have never taken that trip to Bangkok.

Baby Lee
03-20-2015, 04:53 PM
I'm a little superstitious about my eyesight. I've abused the hell out of it, reading like a mofo every day since I was 8 or so, usually small type.

My day was born nearsighted and my mom has old lady farsightedness, but so far I plug along with no deficits, from near to far, low light, color blindness, etc.

That's what freaked me out about the sleep aid shit, until I realized it went away after I slept.

Toadkiller
03-20-2015, 04:55 PM
I started getting them then went to the eye doctor. Turns out a vein blew up in the back of my retina. Now I get fucking eye shots every 6 weeks to try to fix it.

scho63
03-20-2015, 06:00 PM
Since I've done research I've noticed a flash in my left eye when I do rigorous eye movement. It's kind of hard to see if it's different since that wasn't a routine test. My right eye has no symptoms. Back to the eye doctor.

You need to make sure you are not suffering a retinal tear from detachment of your vitreous sac . I have suffered two that required emergency surgery. One tear in the right eye in June 2002 and two tears in the left eye in May 2004.

I have scleral buckles on both eyes.

I have a ton of floaters and left over vitreous :rolleyes:

Hog's Gone Fishin
03-20-2015, 06:09 PM
I thought a floater was when you take a dump and check to see if it floats.

ghak99
03-20-2015, 09:05 PM
I have one that floats around on the right side of my left eye. Just figured it had something to do with getting knocked out a time or three.

TLO
03-20-2015, 09:13 PM
I've had them for as long as I can remember.

I get tracers sometimes too...

Same

TLO
03-20-2015, 09:15 PM
I've had them for as long as I can remember.

I get tracers sometimes too...

Same.

My tracers are worst when I'm right on the edge of being awake and being asleep. I don't have them very often beyond that.

Strongside
03-20-2015, 09:24 PM
Had them my whole life.

lewdog
03-20-2015, 09:26 PM
I get them from time to time. Usually with a heavy flow.

BucEyedPea
03-20-2015, 10:11 PM
I get them from time to time. Usually with a heavy flow.

You menstruate?

eDave
03-20-2015, 10:18 PM
I started getting them then went to the eye doctor. Turns out a vein blew up in the back of my retina. Now I get ****ing eye shots every 6 weeks to try to fix it.

Man. That's a bigger buzzkill than glaucoma.

Dave Lane
03-20-2015, 10:23 PM
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007
03-20-2015, 11:51 PM
Been dealing with eye floaters for 15 years.

DaneMcCloud
03-20-2015, 11:56 PM
You menstruate?

That hasn't been obvious?





:D

cosmo20002
03-21-2015, 12:16 AM
Anyone else get fractals if you press your palms into your eye sockets while your lids are closed? Usually purple rotating fractal pattern like a mid 90s screensaver.

Oh, and no floaties here. Though I do notice that with OTC sleep meds [diphenhydramine], my ability to focus my eyes goes before I get drowsy. Not in a drowsy way, but in a farsighted way, utterly unable to focus on text, which sucks when I try to supplement the sleep aid with reading to bring on drowsiness.

Maybe don't do that?

eDave
03-21-2015, 12:17 AM
Maybe don't do that?

ROFL

007
03-21-2015, 01:45 AM
Thats the equivalent of telling the Dr it hurts when I so this.

Cmd'r&Chief
03-21-2015, 02:22 AM
Take 2 doses of antifreeze per day. Clears it right up.
Can confirm

WilliamTheIrish
03-21-2015, 07:43 AM
I have an Africa shaped floater in my right eye, from an ice pick accident when I was a kid. I slipped with an icepick and jabbed myself in the eyeball, requiring internal and external stitches on the white part of my eye just below the pupil.

Last year I was diagnosed with glaucoma in that eye.

Have you always had it? If you also notice bright lightning flashes when you cough or sneeze real hard, or if you start getting tunnel vision, you might want to get it tested. That's evidence of your optic nerve detaching from your retina.

Hi Mr. Braille.

Baby Lee
03-21-2015, 07:54 AM
Maybe don't do that?

Never rubbed your eyes when you were tired?

Not like it's an hours long proposition. Give a little rub and fractals show up.

Fish
03-21-2015, 08:46 AM
I get tracers sometimes too...

That's usually neural damage from drug use.

:toast:

SAUTO
03-21-2015, 10:15 AM
That's usually neural damage from drug use.

:toast:


Mine aren't triggered by being up for a week like most.

SAUTO
03-21-2015, 10:17 AM
And I was never a tripper.

FlaChief58
03-21-2015, 10:36 AM
I've had them since I was a kid. Annoying little fuckers

ChiefRocka
03-21-2015, 02:22 PM
What I see when at the beach:

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/08/140828142738-large.jpg

Sully
03-21-2015, 02:40 PM
Anyone else get fractals if you press your palms into your eye sockets while your lids are closed? Usually purple rotating fractal pattern like a mid 90s screensaver.

Oh, and no floaties here. Though I do notice that with OTC sleep meds [diphenhydramine], my ability to focus my eyes goes before I get drowsy. Not in a drowsy way, but in a farsighted way, utterly unable to focus on text, which sucks when I try to supplement the sleep aid with reading to bring on drowsiness.

I've had those my entire life. Literally as long as I remember. Even without the pressure. But they aren't purple for me. They are yellow and black.